Persuasion Quotes · Page 2

“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”

— Lord Macaulay

Persuasion is not a science but an art

— William Bernbach

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

— Lord Chesterfield

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

— Anonymous

Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.

— Jeaniene Frost

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

— Aristotle

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

— Vincent de Paul

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

— William Blake

One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

— William Wordsworth

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

— Noah Webster

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

— Aristotle

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was…

— Ellen Page

“The character of people varies, and it is easy to persuade them of a thing, but difficult to keep them in that…

— Nancy Goldstone

“The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game…

— Ronald Reagan

“Your pitch should not feel like a pitch. It should feel like the natural next step in a helpful conversation.”

— Peter Holberg

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

— Kenneth Burke

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly…

— Jane Austen

Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion,…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one…

— John Robert Seeley

I urge our people everywhere, with all of the persuasiveness of which I am capable, to live worthy to hold a temple…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art…

— Abe Ajay

Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every…

— Albert Meltzer

To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or…

— Henry More

There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We imagine what this country is, but quite clearly, this country is a mystery. I mean, one of the reasons I did…

— Errol Morris

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions…

— Charles Brockden Brown

The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether…

— Karen Armstrong

Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons…

— Antony Flew

Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention…

— Samuel Johnson

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they…

— Herodotus

God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things…

— John Taylor

“I grabbed my Kindle from the table and tapped to Persuasion—”

— Katherine Reay

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

— Abraham Lincoln

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

— Themistocles

“the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.”

— Eric Metaxas

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

— Shiv Khera

“My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance.”

— Stephanie Laurens

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

— Ellen Glasgow

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

— Richard Dawkins